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If you try to use HBO Go or Max GO it won't display the video, only audio. I think those premium channels wrote code into those apps to prevent them from being displayed on other devices. Makes sense if you don't subscribe to those services but grab someone's login & password to watch on your TV.

If you have an iPad 2 or a 3rd generation iPad you can airplay anything even if the app doesn't allow it. Just double tap the home button and then slide all the way to the left and you will see that you can mirror what ever you have on your iPad and it will show up on your TV full screen if you have an Apple TV 2nd or 3rd generation,if the show you are watching is in widescreen. You will get The Video with the Audio this way.

Just updated mine last night, video quality is actually pretty good. Would like to see Retina Graphics next update hopefully to support Gen3 ipad. (I got a gen3 on release day) A lot of pay content unless you sort by premium service. I'm never paying to rent a movie on my ipad. The live TV works so well I wish they would let you access all the channels you sub or your DVR list.

For those having problems app not finding the DVR's, give your boxes a static ip, if you don't know how just google how to do it. It's pretty easy won't take long. Then reboot your router & IRD's should be good 2 go.

However, still no luck outside of home wi-fi. It is possible that something might be blocked on the public wi-fi I'm using, but I can't get anything to come up. Everything just shows the animating icon like it is doing something, but it never does. (I was using the Watch on iPad option, but to no avail).

Meanwhile those of us with Android devices are still waiting for some love

That is why I gave up on waiting. Just bought an iPad 3 and am selling my Xoom. Android is too fragmented... Development is lacking for it and when something does come out for it, it is usually treated as a 2nd class citizen.

I can't get it to work outside of my home wifi network. The app works fine while connected to my home network, but when trying to connect on another network, the updated app simply tells me to connect to my home wifi network in order to view live programming. Am I misunderstanding the fundamental meaning of watching Directv "everywhere?"

I can't get it to work outside of my home wifi network. The app works fine while connected to my home network, but when trying to connect on another network, the updated app simply tells me to connect to my home wifi network in order to view live programming. Am I misunderstanding the fundamental meaning of watching Directv "everywhere?"

Yeah. DIRECTV Everywhere is really an inaccurate statement. I still cannot watch recorded shows from my DVR on my iPad. It seems to me, all this added is the ability to watch HBO and Cinemax (to which I don't subscribe) and Audience and Sony MC (which rarely have much of interest).

When I can, at the very least, watch shows that I've recorded on my iPad, it will finally be useful to me. Until then, it's just a novelty.

I can't get it to work outside of my home wifi network. The app works fine while connected to my home network, but when trying to connect on another network, the updated app simply tells me to connect to my home wifi network in order to view live programming. Am I misunderstanding the fundamental meaning of watching Directv "everywhere?"

Works find on my home network (which is rarely where I would want to use it (distributing new recordings not withstanding)). So far unable to tell difference from this and prior version when not in the "nest" Keeps reading loading, doesn't allow button presses to work.

Have not yet tried live TV streaming off my home network so can't comment on functionality. Still no streaming of DVR content to iPad while on home network.

The following bugs/issues that have existed since the first release have still not been corrected (can we PLEASE fix #2):

Does not take advantage of iOS multitasking (starts from scratch whenever you leave the app and then return).
No way to dismiss the detail dialog in guide list view mode.
Data listed in the sports tab for many sports (golf and NASCAR in particular but I have honestly not checked them all) is incorrect/incomplete. Completed in particular seems to have issues.
In the movies tab, Browse Movies/What's on Now does not list all the movies currently playing "now".
Search results are inconsistent at best and just wrong many times.

Some of these problems are clearly issues with the back end data feeds and not the app itself but it still causes the app to be less than functional. It sure would be nice if they assigned some of the folks they have developing "new" features/functions to work on fixing stuff that still does not work!

Yeah. DIRECTV Everywhere is really an inaccurate statement. I still cannot watch recorded shows from my DVR on my iPad. It seems to me, all this added is the ability to watch HBO and Cinemax (to which I don't subscribe) and Audience and Sony MC (which rarely have much of interest).

When I can, at the very least, watch shows that I've recorded on my iPad, it will finally be useful to me. Until then, it's just a novelty.